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  While they haven’t formally upped their current all-cash bid for Warner Bros., Paramount has sweetened the deal a little with a ticking fee. To fill us in on this latest development, we have Blake & Wang P.A. check entertainment lawyer Los Angeles USA, Brandon Blake.                                                                     Brandon Blake Ticking Fee Offer   While the underlying $30 all-cash bid per share will stay in place, they have added a new $0.25 per share ticking fee payable to the shareholders for every quarter the deal Paramount wants with Warner Bros. Discovery has not closed, with the timeline starting on the last day of this year.   This should come out to around $650M in value per quarter and, at a deeper level, is also something of a flex from Paramount that it...

  Although the Sony Group overall reported strong gains in its latest earnings report, Sony Pictures Entertainment didn’t fare quite so successfully. Brandon Blake, see entertainment lawyer Los Angeles with Blake & Wang P.A., fills out the details.                                                                        Brandon Blake Revenue Dip Despite $2.3B in revenue overall and $197M for the third quarter, Sony Pictures Entertainment was down 12% on last year, and 11% for the quarter. In quite stark contrast, the Sony Group as a whole saw a 22% growth. They also reported a drop in marketing costs for their theatrical fare, although a decrease in sales still pulled down overall operating income.   However, with some perspective, that looks a little less like a failure. The same quarter la...

 Connect Ventures, the venture capital arm of the CAA, has built out its leadership team further. Brandon Blake, our entertainment attorney from Blake & Wang P.A, tells us more about the change. Brandon Blake Post-Expansion Leadership Connect Ventures was the CAA’s first expansion into venture capital, founded in 2020 as a joint venture with New Enterprise Associates. It works as an investment vehicle, helping to start up and grow early-stage consumer businesses not just for media and entertainment, but also sports, gaming, health and wellness, and e-commerce.   Their team is now joined by both Nicole Quinn and Michael Blank as managing partners, while Adam Friedmann from the CAA joins as a venture partner. He will be their daily lead for both Hollywood talent management and sports representation. NEA Remains New Enterprise Associates remains as a partner, although together with the CAA, this is something of a relaunch of the firm to be a proper new entrant in...